Preamble: The purpose of this policy is to set forth policies and guidelines for access to the school district computer system and acceptable and safe use of technology resources and the Internet. Students are responsible for good behavior on school computer networks just as they are in a classroom or school hallway. Communications on the network are to be considered public in nature. General school rules for behavior and communications apply.
Definition section:
Illegal activities – include, but are not limited to, any activities in violation of local, state, and/or federal laws
Inappropriate use – includes any activities conducted in violation of this policy or additional activities deemed inappropriate by system administrators including:
retrieval of or access to any sexual explicit materials
information that could cause damage, present a danger, or cause a disruption to the school or district
revealing personal contact information relating to themselves or other persons
Computer systems and networks are any configuration of hardware and software. The systems and networks include all of the computer hardware, operating system software, application software, stored text, and data files. This includes electronic mail, local databases, externally accessed databases (such as the Internet), CD-ROM, optical media, clip art, digital images, digitized information, communications technologies, and new technologies as they become available. The school and district reserves the right to monitor all technology resource activity.
Policy statement: Electronic information research skills are now fundamental to preparation of citizens and future employees. Access to the school district computer system and to the Internet enables students and employees to explore thousands of libraries, databases, bulletin boards, and other resources while exchanging messages with people around the world. The school district will make every reasonable effort to ensure appropriate and responsible use through the use of content filtering devices and apps for controlling student access on the Internet. The school district expects that faculty will blend thoughtful use of the school district computer system and the Internet throughout the curriculum and will provide guidance and instruction to students in their use of skills for evaluating, choosing, identifying, and creating information sources.
Acceptable uses: The District’s technology resources will be used only for learning, teaching, and administrative purpose consistent with the District’s mission and goals. Software or external data may not be placed on any computer, whether stand alone or networked to the District’s system, without following the guidelines outlined by the District’s Technology Team. The school districts students and users will be educated about appropriate online behavior, including but not limited to, interacting with other individuals on social networking websites, in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and understand how and what is the proper response.
Unacceptable uses: 1. No student user will use the school district systems to access, review, upload, download, store, print, post, receive, transmit or distribute: a. pornographic, obscene or sexually explicit material or other visual depictions that are harmful to minors; b. obscene, abusive, profane, lewd, vulgar, rude, inflammatory, threatening, disrespectful, or sexually explicit language; c. materials that use language or images that are inappropriate in the education setting or disruptive to the educational process; d. information or materials that could cause damage or danger of disruption to the educational process;
e. materials that use language or images that advocate violence or discrimination toward other people (hate literature) or that may constitute harassment or discrimination.
2. No student user will knowingly or recklessly post, transmit or distribute false or defamatory information about a person or organization, or to harass another person, or to engage in personal attacks, including prejudicial or discriminatory attacks.
3. No student user will engage in any illegal act or violate any local, state or federal statute or law.
4. No student user will vandalize, damage or disable the property of another person or organization, will not make deliberate attempts to degrade or disrupt equipment, software or system performance by spreading computer viruses or by any other means, will not tamper with, modify or change the school district system software, hardware or wiring or take any action to violate the school districts security system, and will not use the school district system in such a way as to disrupt the use of the system by other users.
5. No student user will post private information about another person or to post, transmit or distribute personal contact information about themselves or other persons, or other personally identifiable information, including, but not limited to, addresses, telephone numbers, school addresses, work addresses, identification numbers, account numbers, access codes or passwords, labeled photographs or other information that would make the individual’s identity easily traceable, and will not repost a message that was sent to the user privately without permission of the person who sent the message.
6. No student user will violate copyright laws or usage licensing agreements, or otherwise to use another persons property without the persons prior approval or proper citation, including the downloading or exchanging of pirated software or copying software to or from any school computer, and will not plagiarize works they find on the Internet.
Violations/sanctions: Communication conducted over the school district's network is not private and district staff may, in conducing network supervision and maintenance, review and inspect directories or messages. The school district reserves the right and will access stored records with or without reasonable cause to assure compliance with this policy. Violations of this policy can result in but not limited to, loss of Internet access, restitution for costs associated with damages, school disciplinary action, and legal action.
Preamble:
The purpose of this policy is to set forth policies and guidelines for access to the school district computer system and acceptable and safe use of technology resources and the Internet. Students are responsible for good behavior on school computer networks just as they are in a classroom or school hallway. Communications on the network are to be considered public in nature. General school rules for behavior and communications apply.
Definition section:
Policy statement:
Electronic information research skills are now fundamental to preparation of citizens and future employees. Access to the school district computer system and to the Internet enables students and employees to explore thousands of libraries, databases, bulletin boards, and other resources while exchanging messages with people around the world. The school district will make every reasonable effort to ensure appropriate and responsible use through the use of content filtering devices and apps for controlling student access on the Internet. The school district expects that faculty will blend thoughtful use of the school district computer system and the Internet throughout the curriculum and will provide guidance and instruction to students in their use of skills for evaluating, choosing, identifying, and creating information sources.
Acceptable uses:
The District’s technology resources will be used only for learning, teaching, and administrative purpose consistent with the District’s mission and goals. Software or external data may not be placed on any computer, whether stand alone or networked to the District’s system, without following the guidelines outlined by the District’s Technology Team. The school districts students and users will be educated about appropriate online behavior, including but not limited to, interacting with other individuals on social networking websites, in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and understand how and what is the proper response.
Unacceptable uses:
1. No student user will use the school district systems to access, review, upload, download, store, print, post, receive, transmit or distribute:
a. pornographic, obscene or sexually explicit material or other visual depictions that are harmful to minors;
b. obscene, abusive, profane, lewd, vulgar, rude, inflammatory, threatening, disrespectful, or sexually explicit language;
c. materials that use language or images that are inappropriate in the education setting or disruptive to the educational process;
d. information or materials that could cause damage or danger of disruption to the educational process;
e. materials that use language or images that advocate violence or discrimination toward other people (hate literature) or that may constitute harassment or discrimination.
2. No student user will knowingly or recklessly post, transmit or distribute false or defamatory information about a person or organization, or to harass another person, or to engage in personal attacks, including prejudicial or discriminatory attacks.
3. No student user will engage in any illegal act or violate any local, state or federal statute or law.
4. No student user will vandalize, damage or disable the property of another person or organization, will not make deliberate attempts to degrade or disrupt equipment, software or system performance by spreading computer viruses or by any other means, will not tamper with, modify or change the school district system software, hardware or wiring or take any action to violate the school districts security system, and will not use the school district system in such a way as to disrupt the use of the system by other users.
5. No student user will post private information about another person or to post, transmit or distribute personal contact information about themselves or other persons, or other personally identifiable information, including, but not limited to, addresses, telephone numbers, school addresses, work addresses, identification numbers, account numbers, access codes or passwords, labeled photographs or other information that would make the individual’s identity easily traceable, and will not repost a message that was sent to the user privately without permission of the person who sent the message.
6. No student user will violate copyright laws or usage licensing agreements, or otherwise to use another persons property without the persons prior approval or proper citation, including the downloading or exchanging of pirated software or copying software to or from any school computer, and will not plagiarize works they find on the Internet.
Violations/sanctions:
Communication conducted over the school district's network is not private and district staff may, in conducing network supervision and maintenance, review and inspect directories or messages. The school district reserves the right and will access stored records with or without reasonable cause to assure compliance with this policy. Violations of this policy can result in but not limited to, loss of Internet access, restitution for costs associated with damages, school disciplinary action, and legal action.